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First Look 2007 Microsoft® Office System (Bpg Other)

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Don't pick up this book thinking it will teach how to use office 2007. This is more of a large sales brochure for what is new in office 2007.

If you are wondering if you should upgrade your user community, then it could help as it will give you an idea as to what has changed. This is a major release and it will involve some learning by the user base.

There are an ample amount of screen shots to get an idea of the new UI. The book does walk you through some very basic stuff. However, I should say again this is not a "Howto" book.

The "search inside" link above has the contents so I will not list them here. What I found a little useful was the discussion about onenote and office grove as I did not know them.

Each product section has a small interview with the product managers. I found them a little boring and skipped them after I read the first two.

Visio and sharepoint are very lightly mentioned.

Overall, this is an ok overview book but it is not something you will want to give long term shelf space. I am not going to keep the book as I think it's served it's purpose after one reading.

Murray skims through the many incremental changes in MS Office 2007. Given that Microsoft has hundreds of programmers that maintain their Office suite, it should be no surprise that the book has plenty of new material.

But if you are going to read this book, you should mentally step back and ask yourself if the upgrade's changes will actually be used by you. The bulk of the book deals with incremental refinements. Chances are that the existing MS Office you're already using is plenty adequate.

This book was purchased to replace one that I had lost, and was only meant as a general reference. However, despite it having been written at the beginning of Office 2007's launch, it still contains information which is useful for anyone using this standard suite of applications today.
Very well written, with lots of diagrams and references.

This book wasn't what I thought it would be. If you just want information about office 2007 then i guess its ok. If you want something to actually show you all the features with some tutorials then buy something else.

I never received the copy of the Microsoft Office 2007 and I would like a refund.

I read this book : First Look 2007 Microsoft Office System. Just buy it! EROL MVP SharePoint